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Friday, July 8, 2016

Race War USA: BLM Snipers Killed 5 Police In Dallas

DALLAS SHOOTINGS: 'Snipers' kill five
police officers in 'deadliest day for law enforcement since 9/11'. 11 police
officers and two bystanders have been shot 'by snipers'. Five officers are dead.
Snipers opened fire during a protest after the shootings of two black men.

Four BLM (Black Lives Matter Movement) gunmen
have shot 11 police officers and two civilians, killing at least five officers
during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Thursday night (local time),
local police said.

The shootings have been described by a
President Obama as a 'vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law
enforcement'. According to statistics from the National Law Enforcement
Officers Memorial Fund, the attack is the deadliest for law enforcement since
9/11.

Shooter suspect was 'a black army reservist'

A black US Army reservist who served in
the Afghan war and said he wanted to "kill white people" has been
identified as a gunman who took part in yesterday's attack, in which five
police officers were shot dead at a protest decrying police shootings of black
men, officials say.

Seven other police officers and two
civilians were wounded in the ambush in downtown Dallas on Thursday night,
officials said. Police killed the gunman, identified by a US government source
as Micah Xavier Johnson, using a bomb-carrying robot after an hours-long
standoff. The shooting sent swarms of protesters running in panic in the
streets as police officers came under fire.

"This was a well-planned,
well-thought-out, evil tragedy by these suspects. And we won't rest until we
bring everyone involved to justice," Dallas Police Chief David Brown said
on Friday. "We are determined to not let this person steal this democracy
from us."

During lengthy negotiations with
police, the gunman said "the end is coming," Brown told reporters. "He
said he was upset about the recent police shootings," said Brown, who is
black. "The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated
that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers."

This undated photo posted on Facebook
on April 30, 2016, shows Micah Johnson, who was a suspect in the sniper
slayings of five law enforcement officers in Dallas. Source: Facebok via AP. Authorities
said that the gunman fired at least some of the shots in the attack but have
not ruled out that other shooters were involved.

The US Army said Johnson had served as
a private first class in the Army Reserve, made up of part-time soldiers, and
was deployed to Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014. It said Johnson
served from March 2009 to April 2015 and was a carpentry and masonry specialist
with the 420th Engineering Brigade based in Texas.

The shootings, the latest major gun
violence to rock the United States, took place toward the end of a march
protesting incidents earlier in the week in Louisiana and Minnesota in which
police fatally shot black men in confrontations whose bloody aftermath was
caught on video. The Dallas shootings came during a week of heightened emotions
over police use of force against black suspects and raised fears that others
might seek to retaliate against police.

A string of killings of black men and
boys by police in cities including Ferguson, Missouri, New York, Baltimore,
Chicago, Cleveland, Tulsa, Oklahoma and North Charleston, South Carolina have
given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement against excessive police force. The
killings have spurred almost two years of periodic and largely peaceful street
protests.

Police believed during the shooting
that they were under attack by multiple gunmen using high-powered rifles at
ground level and on rooftops. Police said they were questioning two occupants
of a Mercedes they had pulled over after seeing a man throwing a camouflage bag
inside the back of the vehicle, which then sped off on a downtown street. A
woman was also taken into custody near the garage where the standoff took
place.

A Twitter account describing itself as
representing the Black Lives Matter movement sent the message: "Black
Lives Matter advocates dignity, justice and freedom. Not murder." US
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the Justice Department would assist in the
investigation into the shooting. "Do not let this week precipitate a new
normal in this country," Lynch told reporters in Washington.

The Killer-Robot that killed the cops-killer with a bomb.

POLICE CHIEF: 'Suspect killed by police bomb robot'

Dallas Police Chief David Brown
confirmed a shooting suspect died yesterday due to the detonation of a police
bomb. Chief Brown said reports that the suspect had shot himself were not
accurate.

“We saw no other option but to use our
bomb robot and place a device for it to detonate where the suspect was,” he
said. “Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger, the
suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb. The report that the
suspect killed himself is not accurate. He is deceased because of the
detonation of the bomb.”

Chief Brown said the suspect was upset
about Black Lives Matter and wanted to kill white police officers. "The
suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about
the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people the
suspect said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers."

Earlier, local media in Dallas reported
a suspect engaged in a stand off with police in a garage is dead. The man was
one of four suspects identified by police in the aftermath of the sniper attack
which saw 12 police shot, five killed and two members of the public injured. He
had earlier told police bombs had been planted around Dallas, according to
Police Chief David Brown. Chief Brown said said the man had told officers
multiple bombs had been planted to hurt and kill police.

Dead officers of Dallas Police Department.

Mark Zuckerberg has put up a large BLM sign at Facebook HQ just after Dallas massacre..

OBAMA: 'No justification' for deadly events in Dallas

US President Barack Obama says America
has there can be 'no justification' for the deadly events in Dallas, sending
his condolences to families of five slain police officers.''' The US president
delivered his short address from Poland, saying America had been 'horrified' by
the shootings which have left five police officers dead and more wounded.

His comments came just a day after he
addressed the deaths of two black men who were killed in separate police
shootings earlier this week. The deaths were the spark for the protests in
Dallas.

"When incidents like this occur,
there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if it's because of
the colour of their skin, they are not being treated the same," Obama said
on Thursday. "When people say 'black lives matter,' that doesn't mean blue
lives don't matter," Obama said, referring to police officers.

A man identified immediately after the
attacks has been released from custody. Mark Hughes was identified as a suspect
shortly after the attack. He has since been released from custody. Police say Mark Hughes is longer a suspect.

An image of Mark Hughes, brother of
Black Lives Matter organiser Corey Hughes, was released by police less than an
hour after the attacks. In the image Mark Hughes was shown carrying at AR-15
assault rifle during the Dallas protests.